John Frankenheimer, one of the foremost directors of the 1960's with classic films like ''The Manchurian Candidate,'' ''Seven Days in May,'' ''Birdman of Alcatraz'' and ''The Train,'' died Saturday of a stroke resulting from complications after...

John Frankenheimer, one of the foremost directors of the 1960's with classic films like ''The Manchurian Candidate,'' ''Seven Days in May,'' ''Birdman of Alcatraz'' and ''The Train,'' died of a massive stroke today from complications after spinal...

July 7, 2002, Sunday

Exuberant in the Oval Office on the night of his 1965 inauguration, soon after he was elected president by a huge majority, Lyndon B. Johnson puts his arms out and swirls an imaginary dance partner around the room. ''The Great Society is my beautiful...

As an actor, Ben Affleck often suggests one of the Kennedys playing Clark Kent: he wants to keep his light under a bushel, but he's not quite up to it. He looks as if he has never missed a party or a night's sleep. He's game, though, and his slight...

February 25, 2000, Friday

Dr. King's Life, For Children Coretta Scott King said that it was fun to see her children's names in the credits alongside Samuel Jackson, Susan Sarandon, John Travolta and Whoopi Goldberg. They and a dozen other stars are the voices of...

Alfred Hitchcock, as is well known, gave the playful name McGuffin to the element in a movie's plot that propels the action. A McGuffin can be one of two types, an event that unleashes a series of subsequent events (as in ''Strangers on a Train'') or...